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Monday, July 8 | |
8:30 am |
Coffee and Pastries
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8:50am |
Welcome
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9:00am |
Directed Technical Change: Evidence from U.S. Rural Electrification |
9:50am |
Break
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10:00am |
Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development: Evidence from Historical Treaties |
10:50am |
Break
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11:00am |
Rain Follows the Forest: Land Use Policy, Climate Change, and Adaptation |
11:50am |
Lunch
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1:00pm |
4 Egg Timer Presentations
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Suez |
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Coercive Assimilation Policy and Ethnic Identification Across Generations: Evidence from American Indian Boarding Schools |
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Geography and Opportunity: Evidence from the Orphan Trains |
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Persistence in Season of Birth: A New Linkage-Free Measure of Black Intergenerational Mobility |
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1:50pm |
Break
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2:00pm |
How Successful Public Health Interventions Fail: Regulating Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Britain |
2:50pm |
Break
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3:00pm |
Emigration during Turbulent Times |
3:50pm |
Break
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4:00pm |
Inequality and Racial Backlash: Evidence from the Reconstruction Era and the Freedmen’s Bureau |
4:50pm |
Adjourn
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Student Posters on view throughout the meeting
Anthony Bald, Harvard University The Birth of an Occupation: Professional Nursing in the Era of Public Health Allison E. Green, Princeton University Peer Effects and Geographic Mobility: Evidence from U.S. Navy Servicemen during World War II Elijah Locke, Boston University Ethnic-Occupational Niches: Evidence from the Age of Mass Migration Pablo A. Valenzuela-Casasempere, University of British Columbia Displacement and Infrastructure Provision: Evidence from the Interstate Highway System Youwei Adam. Xing, Clemson University The Erie Canal and the Economic Transformation of Nineteenth-Century New York State Dongkyu C. Yang, University of Colorado Boulder Time to Accumulate: The Great Migration and the Rise of the American South |
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Tuesday, July 9 | |
8:30 am |
Coffee and Pastries
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9:00am |
Beyond the War: Public Service and the Transmission of Gender Norms |
9:50am |
Break
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10:00am |
Gender Gaps in Academia: Global Evidence over the Twentieth Century |
10:50am |
Break
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11:00am |
Why Did Gender Wage Convergence in the United States Stall? |
11:50am |
Lunch
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1:00pm |
4 Egg Timer Presentations
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The California Effect: The Challenges of Identifying the Impact of Social Policies during an Era of Social Change |
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Changes in the College Mobility Pipeline Since 1900 |
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Markets Make Humans WEIRDer: Evidence from 1850-1920 United States |
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Mass Production of Houses in Factories in the United States: The First and Only “Experiment” Was a Tremendous Success |
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1:50pm |
Break
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2:00pm |
Military Keynesianism Revisited: The Impact of Cold War Spending on Labor Markets and Politics |
2:50pm |
Break
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3:00pm |
From Samurai to Skyscrapers: How Transaction Costs Shape Tokyo |
3:50pm |
Adjourn
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Wednesday, July 10 | |
8:30 am |
Coffee and Pastries
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9:00am |
Finding John Smith: Using Extra Information for Historical Record Linkage |
9:50am |
Break
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10:00am |
The Historical Incarceration Penalty in the U.S. |
10:50am |
Break
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11:00am |
Convicts and Comrades: Coerced Labor's Impact on the First Labor Unions |
11:50am |
Lunch
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1:00pm |
4 Egg Timer Presentations
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Trade Disruptions and America's Early Industrialization |
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The Making of High-tech Clusters: Evidence from Early-mover Corporate Labs |
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How Suitable are FAO-GAEZ Crop Suitability Indices for Historical Analysis? |
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The Origins and Evolution of Occupational Licensing in the United States |
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1:50pm |
Break
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2:00pm |
Closing Ranks: Organized Labor and Immigration |
2:50pm |
Break
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3:00pm |
Did Organized Labor Induce Labor? Unionization and the American Baby Boom |
3:50pm |
Adjourn
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Thursday, July 11 | |
8:30 am |
Coffee and Pastries
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9:00am |
The Ms Allocation of Talent |
9:50am |
Break
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10:00am |
From Sticks to Bricks: Construction Technology and Medieval Urban Development |
10:50am |
Break
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11:00am |
American Life Histories |
11:50am |
Adjourn and Lunch
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